Improved medical compound



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JOHN G. JEFFREY, M. n, OF SOUTH NEW BERLIN,- NEW YORK.

Letters Patent No. 03,902, dated A ril 16, 186i.

IMPROVED MEDICAL COMPOUND.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, JOHN JEFFREY, M. 1)., of South New Berlin, in the county of Chenango, and Sitate of New York, have invented a new and useful Medical Compound; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof. My improved medicine, which, from the volatile properties it contains, I term Medicated Gas, is of the nature of a lininient, applicable by external use to all rheumatic alfections, agile and fever, and other fevers resulting from malarious and climatic influences, and asa counter-irritant and stimulant in internal oon -estions and cholera collapse, and in all cases of prostration and great depression of the vital energies.

It is composed of the following ingredients in substantially the proportions named:

Gum guaiacuni, one ounce; gum turpentine, one ounce; alum, one ounce; capsicum, one-half ounce; sa'lt petre, one ounce; Sassafras bark, onevonnce; urine of'man and beast, equal partsone gallon. The solid ingredients. are linely pulverized before admixture with the liquicly and shoul'cljlae \vell shaken, when, after standing forty-eight hours, it may be kept-in glass-stoppered or otherwise sealed vessels.

The mode of application will readily suggest itself in each case, but shouldgenerally be attended with frietion of flannel or the handy What I claim as my invention is r a The improved medical compound, composed of'the ingredients in substantially the proportions herein specified.

In witness whereof'I have hereunto signed mynarne in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN G. JEFFREY.

'Witnesses:

E. R. FULLEIL, H. M. Ousm'ne. 

